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ROYAL GARDENS, KEW. 
BULLETIN 
OF 
MISCELLANEOUS INFORMATION. 
Nos. 58-59.] OCTOBER and NOVEMBER. [ 1891. 
CCXVIII.—CHINESE FIBRES. 
Under the name of jute or hemp there are included a eee g 
commercial fibres in China yielded by very different plants. There 
different fibres bearing the same name, and the same product often bas 
different names at different ports. The fault is proe due to the 
fact that Юогореай traders have used ave terms jute and hemp in a 
аф sense rather than a specific one. There is probably also a 
scal element concerned, ‚88 the патр? on “jute” is only “2 шасе рег 
picul,” whereas * hemps” pay 3$ mace. An inquiry made a Kew less 
than a year ago in regard to the origin of Chinese jute, as quoted i 
the London trade lists, has brought out very forcibly the confusion 
which exists in п regard to the origin and classification of commercial 
is grown and prepared in the neighbourhood of the town of Wénchow 
while the so-called jute of Northern China is obtained from an entirely 
LONDON 
PRINTED eod ae MAJESTY’S STATIONERY OFFICE, 
E AND ее: 
PRINTERS v om уйн 
w NILE STREET, GLASGOW; 
HODGES, FIGGIS, & Co., 104, GRAFTON STREZT, рових, 
1891. 
